Monday, July 12, 2010

ARTstor: Yale University Art Gallery

The ARTstor Digital Image Library has partnered with the Yale University Art Gallery to share approximately 1,900 images from the Yale University permanent collection, with a particular focus on African art. The collection in ARTstor includes approximately 800 works of African art.

The remainder of the collection in the Digital Library includes works, divided among eleven curatorial departments: African Art, American Decorative Arts, American Paintings and Sculpture, Ancient Art, Art of the Ancient Americas, Asian Art, Coins and Medals, European Art, Indo-Pacific Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.

The Yale University Art Gallery, America's oldest and one of its most important university art museums, opened to the public in 1832. To view the Yale University Art Gallery collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click "Yale University Art Gallery". If you are on campus and have an ARTstor account, simply follow this link:
http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/yale_artgallery

To view ARTstor from off campus locations you need to create an ARTstor account at http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml from any computer on the Southwestern College campuses.

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